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Percentage of those MAGAs who favor deporting students legally in the U.S. over their support for Palestinians who are aware that Benjamin Netanyahu spent years financially supporting Hamas prior to October 7 according to all major Israeli media outlets: 0

submitted 7 hours ago • 27 comments

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.

submitted 3 hours ago • 97 comments

Please note that rogue countries, like China, actively monitor and harass dissidents here. This is a trial balloon. If this is OK, there is nothing stopping the Trump admin from handing over “troublemakers” to countries who are “willing to make a deal”

submitted 7 hours ago • 45 comments

First they came for the pro-Palestinian activists, and if you don't speak up now it's only going to get harder and scarier.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Yeah, this is a perennial truth -- landmark struggles over free speech typically involve people who are saying and doing things that are unpopular That's, uh, why they need the protection of the First Amendment. It's sort of the whole point.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Dear Democrats: 📌83-year-old Bernie Sanders has been barnstorming through the Midwest drawing huge crowds taking on the Nazi shit coming out of the Republican Party, and fighting for the rights and benefits WE EARNED. 📌Get a fucking clue, get in the fight, out of D.C., or not another dime.

submitted 23 hours ago • 126 comments

Trump, who doesn’t drive, announced he will use his office to perform a Tesla marketing gimmick

submitted 21 hours ago • 839 comments

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 1 day ago • 216 comments

The first lesson of Whiggism was "the legislature must control the power of the purse." The first lesson of classical market liberalism was "trade wars are bad." The lesson of the first crisis of the 1787 American constitution was "the Alien and Sedition Acts are bad."

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

The U.S. power grid added more capacity from solar energy in 2024 than from any other source in a single year in more than two decades, according to a new industry report.

submitted 16 hours ago • 33 comments

Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.

submitted 1 day ago • 159 comments

For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

"US stock market loses $4 trillion in value as Trump plows ahead on tariffs" www.reuters.com/markets/us/i...

submitted 22 hours ago • 427 comments

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

submitted 1 day ago • 1108 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 2 days ago • 249 comments

Read: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 473 comments

Why take a perfectly safe vaccine to prevent getting sick when you can just get sick from a preventable disease and probably be fine but maybe die.

submitted 2 days ago • 376 comments

They do seem like inconsistent positions, but the attacks on teachers was really about dismantling public schools to get taxpayer dollars for home schoolers and private charter schools run by charlatans.

submitted 2 days ago • 555 comments

I enthusiastically endorse Diane Seltzer for DC Bar President. The election is coming up soon. If you are a DC Bar member please make sure to vote for her!

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Let the brain drain commence! www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

submitted 3 days ago • 752 comments

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt." - Gandhi

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

Editor Commentary: Every budget cycle I call to feed the children, and it gets left out by Ohio lawmakers. But I will continue sounding the call, because I hold the firm and unshakeable, but apparently insane opinion that schoolchildren shouldn’t go hungry.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

The question is settled, this is going to funnel money to quacks and grifters to create a CDC-approved fake "study" that supercharges vaccine misinformation. It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

Our healthcare system is an extortion racket where thugs hold our lives hostage for profit

submitted 3 days ago • 545 comments

Might save a life.

submitted 4 days ago • 250 comments

Despite negative public opinion, President Donald Trump's administration is gearing up to hand even more of our Medicare over to insurers like UHC with CMS pick, Dr. Oz. They’re planning to push hard for the “Medicare Advantage” & huge profits for insurers. HELL NO! www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

Somebody ought to notify the FAA ... oh, wait, the guy in charge of revamping it now did this. Never mind, they probably already know.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The US Dollar is backed by one thing: confidence in the US economy. If that confidence holds firm, holding a couple billion worth of Bitcoin "reserves" is going to be utterly irrelevant. If it ever goes belly up, holding a couple billion in Bitcoin "reserves" will be equally irrelevant.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Delaying Mexican tariffs but not Canadian puts the lie to the idea that the tariffs have anything to do with fentanyl flows (since there are effectively no fentanyl flows across the northern border and there plenty across the southern border.) It was all an empty pretext anyway. This just proves it.

submitted 5 days ago • 794 comments

Oh man. This really feels like DOGE = eugenics/ passive genocide.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

submitted 6 days ago • 723 comments

Flood the zone with facts

submitted 6 days ago • 159 comments

Good.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

God bless these kids. I didn’t always have enough to eat as a teenager, especially anything healthy, and I can tell you having a guaranteed meal at school would have made a huge difference some days.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

And the majority of it was spent here and benefitted American businesses.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

“Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.”

submitted 7 days ago • 767 comments